AGENTS OF SHIELD Roundtable: “Know Your Onions”

The final season of Marvel’s Agents of SHIELD is underway and our favorite agents’ mission is a conundrum.

Here’s the synopsis for the latest episode, “Know Your Onions”:

With the identity of the timeline-unraveling “thread” revealed, the team’s mission to protect him at all costs leads each agent to question their own values. Is preserving the future of the world as they know it worth the destruction they could prevent?

Join NiceGirls Rueben, Karen, Christie, and Roz as we discuss the episode, using our ratings system known as SASSY – S(tupid), A(wesome), S(o) S(o) and Y(Your Thoughts):

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – Chloe Bennet as Daisy Johnson. (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)

STUPID

Roz: The team needs to sort itself out so they stop being at odds with each other. I know they’ll have conflicts in these situations, but the internal ones are less than ideal after all these seasons.

Rueben: I was a bit troubled by Daisy in this episode too. I didn’t like that she was telling Deke to “take the shot” to get Freddie out of the way. And help me understand something. That dame (Nora Zehetner) who gave Freddie the serum. She gets gut shot, but Jemma removes the bullet and she’s able to be up and moving around. What is she exactly? She’s certainly not human? Am I missing something?

Karen: Maybe it went over my head, but I was puzzled by May’s reaction to Enoch. She wanted to leave the ship, but was that the only reason she beat him into chronosubmission? And along with the rest of you, I also want the infighting to stop.

Christie: Daisy questioning Coulson on the whole timeline issue seems like a disingenuous way to create tension. I know Daisy normally does this, but after all this time she should know better. And her throwing in Coulson’s face that he’s not the one in charge, when she is the one who “awakened him” for the purpose of being a guiding hand in the past? She needs to take several seats.

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – Clark Gregg as Phil Coulson.  (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)

AWESOME

Roz: Enoch vs May fighting was something I didn’t know I wanted to see until I was seeing it with my own eyes.

Rueben: That was a great sequence! In fact, everything that May did in this episode was just like, “what the h#ll is happening?” for me; but great to watch. It’s like she’s been reset and is nearly like Enoch and the other chronicoms. No human reactions, not even to Coulson being “back.”

Karen: Regardless of how I feel about May’s motivations, that fight scene was badass. She’s just as much a machine as Enoch – just in a different way. Single-minded and strong in her convictions. Not many women like that on TV these days. Especially in such a major role. Secondly, Patton Oswalt is the Tatiana Maslany of SHIELD. I love seeing the nuances he brings to each of the Koenigs. My admiration of him as an actor, a comedian, and a person grows every day.

Christie: “You don’t have the guts to pull that trigger!” “No I may not have an intestinal digestive system, but I am very capable of applying pressure…” I snorted.

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. – Elizabeth Henstridge as Dr. Gemma Simmons.(ABC/Mitch Haaseth)

SO SO

Roz: Oh no Yo-yo! I don’t like this situation at all.

Rueben: Yeah, I agree I was worried about Yoyo when she didn’t move at all to stop that bottle from falling. What is up with that. She froze. Is it the shrike affecting her like she said or something else?

Karen: I’m with you guys again about Yo-yo. Is it because she doesn’t trust the new hardware? And Freddie needs to get with the program.

Christie: I’m hoping Yo-yo not being able to use her powers is something easy to fix and not a major problem. Same with emotionless May.

MARVEL’S AGENTS OF S.H.I.E.L.D. Natalia Cordova-Buckley as Elena “Yo-Yo” Rodriguez. (ABC/Mitch Haaseth)

YOUR THOUGHTS

Roz: Daisy why are you trying to mess with history like that? I get wanting to change the future and removing HYDRA, but that also means the end of SHIELD, as the chronicoms want. Ripples are so much better than waves here.

Rueben: Who was in that car that Freddie got into? Will Enoch eventually end up catching up with the team at some point in one of their time jumps? How much will Enoch share with Koenig about SHIELD and his future? What is really going on with Yoyo? What is really happening with May? Will we get to see Jemma and Fitz finally back together before the series finale? There are so many questions to answer. And, we get to see Daniel Sousa in next week’s episode. I’m SO excited to see that!!

Karen: I’m super jazzed about this season for sure. It’s engaging and riveting. The writers are top-notch. I feel like I’m left wanting more at the end of every episode. And As Christie says below, time-travel works so well when done correctly. On par with Timeless in that regard, which is telling. I LOVED Timeless HARD.

Christie: Overall I like the way the new season is working out. Leaving the current era behind was a good idea. I like the idea of timeline dilemmas, especially in a post-Infinity War/Endgame MCU. I just hope every episode isn’t about how they can’t change the past possibly for the better because time travel rules. That will get old fast.

And Enoch got left behind! What will that mean? I’m curious.

Make sure to check out our coverage of the show here.

Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. will be back next week on Wednesday, June 10 at 10/9c on ABC, for the rest of the final season.